But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.

Homicidal has three parts. The first is ‘Fire-Starting,’ the Second is ‘Bed Wetting’, and the last part is ‘Cruelty To Animals.

I love being a part of something I think is great and something that I would want to watch

To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

The art of life is to show your hand

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It’s a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

He tried to sniff with her, but she retreated playfully and coyly. Every advance on his part was accompanied by a corresponding retreat on her part. Step by step she was luring him away from the security of his human companionship.

When I write a goal down – and I truly write them down – it becomes a part of me. That’s a contract that I sign with myself to say, ‘I don’t care what happens – I’m going to stay on this path. I’m going to try and see this through; I’m going to give it my best shot, my best effort.

Paris is a part of my life

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.

Baseball is a dance of skill and strategy, with each player playing their part in the choreography

I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am.

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we’re familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’tis time to part

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature

But they also confuse two distinct occupations: cooks and chefs. Cooks do it at home for love. Chefs do it in public for money. Dinner parties are karaoke cheffery.

Europe is, for the most part, a hugger-mugger continent that works best on the consensus of inertia and precedent. Those who have dogmatic and contrarian beliefs can cause disproportionate ructions and ripples in our overcrowded and hierarchical communities

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere

After God and my family, it’s surf. I don’t imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich… That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.

The fact is I don’t drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car’s reactions, becoming part of it.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life.

Albums are chapters. They’re part of a story.

It’s fun to work the robotic arm in part because it’s really a team effort.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment

If I went out to play basketball with other kids when I came home I’d shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And it’s representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God’s great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It’s love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Pain is part of the sport.

Late switches are part of fighting and I’ve handled them all.

A fight is mental, not just physical and psychological warfare is absolutely part of that.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

To examine each part of this humongous land, it may take as long as fifty years.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Above all, try to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

The less we understand of what our forebears sought, the less we understand ourselves. And thus, we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzsche called, ‘the spirit of gravity.

As a child, I felt myself to be alone and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is a great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important; and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

Honesty and love. Frankness and truthfulness to myself and to the one I love. Truthful between two as one. You are part of my life, no pride, vanity, or anger involved.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else

Good things aren’t supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody’s comfortable prejudices of who I should be

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties

After watching mulattas shake it, I can totally understand why Brazil is devoted to my favorite body part, the ass.

I never wanted to change countries; it’s something that is part of me

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

It’s not imagination on my part when I say that to look up at the sky, the clouds, the moon, and the stars make me calm and patient. It’s a better medicine than either valerian or bromine; mother nature makes me humble and prepared to face every blow courageously

I feel very, very privileged to be a very small part of it.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arm

If I am right, thy grace impart; Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart to find that better way

Authors are partial to their wit

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole

Most critics, fond of some subservient art, still make the whole depend upon a part

Act well your part; there all the honor lies.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.